Week 15 Buy or Sell + Playoff Strategy, Almost Football Time - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/16

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the fantasy footballers podcast with your host Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. It's not football time. Oh man, what day is it? Did you just panic? I did. You were afraid. You had a panic. It's football time that started. But you realized it during.

Oh, that was wonderful. I was scrolling through the sheet like, okay, this is what we're doing today. And I saw the Thursday night preview. And then in my head, it just went, it's Thursday. Oh, no. It's like Jason's David Johnson moment. Oh, well, welcome in. No, no football, Mike. No football today. Well, that sucks. Honestly, I was, I'm cool with the break. The two day, one day, whatever. I need a couple days to recover.

I don't know if you guys know this. This is the first day in 27 days without football. That's how it feels. So, Mike, it was hard for you to mess up, but you did. Wednesday, December 16th. I found the one. Yeah. Welcome in. Brooks is still employed. Brooks is here. How are you, sir? Doing great. Let's be honest. Brooks is employing us at this point.

That is true. Things have really taken a turn. A lot of lucrative business moves have paid off. Shared a picture of Brooks's Manor on my Twitter yesterday. That's actually his summer home. Right. Yes. Which one has the Faberjeet eggs? I don't remember. All of them, really. Brooks is the only person I know who has a home for every season. It's not just summer and winter.

There is also autumn and spring home. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So those are, I mean, that's a lot to maintain. So we respect that about him. Yeah. He doesn't do it. Yeah. That's his staff. Is that what Hal Borland's for? Does Al Borland take care of your places? Yeah. And Debo? Since he knows how to handle a few. No, no, Debo's out. Okay. We've got a busy show today. Some news and notes to talk about Thursday night preview. No, it's not football time.

And we'll get into some mailbag today. We've got some 2021 questions mixed in as well, for those of you who, you know, maybe the first, first round you face Miles Sanders or something, something like that. But we have a fun show today. I did want to give a shout out. We got a message over at jointhefoot.com from one of our listeners who's on the front lines and coordinating the rollout of this COVID vaccine, I think, which.

You know, so many of us are so excited about and transitioning to a more normal world. But we've heard from lots of Foot Clan people that are in the essential worker and frontline healthcare worker category. And they've messaged us to say, you know, thanks for the reprieve of the podcast.

Look, all we do, we just make poop jokes and dad jokes. That's what we do. You do the important work, so I did want to give a special shout out to everybody that has been in that category, in that healthcare frontline worker, essential worker during this last nine months of mayhem in our world. So thank you so much for what you do. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. You can watch the show over there.

And subscribe, click the bell. Mike is waving at you. That is just for you, YouTube. The wave is just for you. Yes. And it's time for some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. Well, last week was maybe our worst buy sell of the year. Two for nine? Is that what I'm seeing? Whoops.

We all sold Alvin Camara. Okay, so we were united on selling Alvin Cameras at top 10 running back. He finished a 10 on the dot. Oh, that's ridiculous. I'm sure we can find a scoring format where we were right. Brooks, what are you doing? That's like the Ravens Safety. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Tyler Lockett, top 15 wide receiver. I sold that. Just a bit outside. I got bullied into that one by Jason. I was trying to stand up for my man.

Thank you. Wide receiver 47. Jason's like, keep believing in Tyler Lockett because I do. I'm like, oh, okay. Not lock it, not lock it. Marvin Jones top 24 wide receiver, he ended up not doing that. So Jason was right. Week 15 by sale, Kyler Murray against Philadelphia. Is he a top 10 quarterback this week against Philly? Man.

I don't think so. He has not been for three straight weeks now. That's right. Actually, this is the top 10 line. It's been four straight weeks that he hasn't been top 10 in six point passing leagues. And the reality is, I think that Philadelphia is.

re-energize. We said this through the season that their defense is actually really, really good. But when they're put in terrible field position, terrible situations that are on the field the entire game, they can't play up to the talent that's on that defense. The offense obviously has been dealing with a lot of injury, but they're actually getting a little bit healthier now and they have a quarterback. So it's also a quarterback that...

you know, because he's mobile and puts a lot of yards on the ground and the clock keeps running and, you know, the game slows down. You don't get as many opportunities on the other side of the ball. So I think he's, I'm willing to play him. He's got the rushing baseline. I don't look at him as I'm going away from this matchup, but I do temper my expectations. I think he finishes outside the top 10. I'm going to sell. I'm going to buy it. Rushing attempts were up last week. They had that game.

under control. He did not have to do a whole lot in the second half, didn't need to. It's just ironic we're having this conversation because there was no one more consistent through 11 weeks than Kyla Murray. Saw some of the rushing attempts go down. I liked them back up last week, 47 rushing yards. I'm going to buy it. Kasem Hill was the QB 11 last week. I mean, almost 300 passing yards, a couple of passing touchdowns. Top 10, though.

I will buy it with Andy. Okay. Kyler, I'm looking at my rankings. I mean, I have him just inside of the top 10, so the easy hedge bet would be to say he's not going to make it, but I would play him. Yeah. DeAndre Swift at Tennessee, buyer sell 75 total yards. Likely no Matthew Stafford in this one. What do you guys think about DeAndre Swift? Came back from the injury, the concussion, and illness last week.

Obviously the most dynamic runner, but they still have a loyalty, it seems, to Adrian Peterson snaps. They had a limited role plan for DeAndre Swift or a little bit more limited. That still turned into 50 yards in a fine fantasy game against Green Bay. Green Bay, an atrocious rush defense the entire season. I mean, since the breakout, you know, we've seen Swift over that mark three times. 75 yards against Tennessee. I'm going to buy it.

It's the, I'm going to buy the volume here. So if Stafford's out, obviously the offense gets worse, but they will probably try to rely on DeAndre Swift a little bit more. And I think that Swift can get it done to get to 75. Yeah, I had Swift in as my original running back start of the week this week. I liked what we saw.

Last week from him, obviously before the concussion injury, he was starting to catch fire. He looked like he was going to be a league winner. And then Stafford being out made me go, man, I don't know if you can really rely on Swift. But 75 total yards against Tennessee, a team that is not good against the pass, is not good against the run. They're not good on defense right now. But they are good on offense. I think they'll score on the Lions. They're going to need some yards for the Lions. I think DeAndre Swift will be involved.

in both the rushing and passing games. So I'm going to buy. I think it's a great line, Jason. I was like, DeAndre Swift, I like it. I'm going to start of the week. Oh, no Stafford. I can't go that far. I'm going to buy it with you guys. So we'll all buy DeAndre Swift over 75. Cream Hunt at the Giants. Is he a top 20 running back this week? It was great to see him explode.

on Monday night football, number four overall this past week. Previously, though, in good matchups, right? Tennessee, Jacksonville, you ended up with outside the top 30, 29th against Philadelphia the week prior. We hadn't seen this. And it really came down to finally, I mean, he's the leading receiver on the team. This was not something we had seen previously. He had been in that four, three, two category in terms of targets. And this was a big improvement for him.

taking on the Giants in New York, top 20 running back, Kareem Hunt. What do you think? I think Kareem Hunt all season has been a fourth quarter guy. You watch the beginning of the game. You're like, man, he's doing nothing. He's not involved enough. And you're really sad. And at the end of the game, you're like, oh, he's awesome. But it's better in those matchups where the other teams are scoring a lot. Obviously, Baltimore, he was great because they had to keep pushing the ball. They had to keep passing. They had to try to keep up with the Baltimore Ravens. I don't think that's going to happen against the New York Giants.

So I'm going to, I mean, this is a really good line because I don't think this requires a touchdown. So I'm close here, but I'm going to sell. I'm going to be just on the outside. I'm going to sell as well. But the upside for Cream Hunt, Jason, like you said, it's not a shootout game with the New York Giants. The upside is garbage. Yeah, three quarters through. Nicholas Chubb has retired.

They don't need chubbing the fourth quarter, and they can just keep giving the ball over and over to Kareem Hunt on top of the, you know, the sporadic opportunities he gets through the whole game. But top 20, I'm going to sell on that mark because I think he's just outside of it. All right, I'm going to buy it. I think he sneaks inside the top 20 this week. Giants over the last six weeks, 24th. And he's going in sync style here. Bye, bye, bye, bye. All right, that was by yourself and pristine auction.

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I expected him to miss the game on Saturday on the show yesterday. And this is the worst for fantasy players, the worst. Unless you have Mike Davis and you don't have Christian McCaffrey like I do in one league where I keep thinking I don't have a running back option. And then Mike Davis is there. Yeah, it's been a bad, bad year for Christian McCaffrey. I finally figured out when he's coming back.

He's coming back in week 17 when most people's fantasy is done, and it's irrelevant. Will you be watching? Of course I'll be watching, but only because it's my job. Okay. All right. And I just want to throw out because I've seen the people talking on Twitter. Like, very upset with Christian McCaffrey. And look, I get that his injuries have let down your fantasy team. But next year.